I'm very passionate about international finance and development economics. Nothing is more pressing to me than providing people with the resources to learn freely (and for free) about the issues that most affect them; and I feel a certain responsibility to continue delivering the disheartening yet important message that global leaders have yet to take any appropriate action to improve the transparency and effectiveness of modern capital markets - we are still at just as much risk today of succumbing to the next financial bubble as we were before the Global Recession. I spend much of my spare time reading scholarly publications and learning new things about the global economy and the challenges ahead.